TRANSFORMATION – How Debbie Rosado Went from a Homeless High School Dropout to an Educator, Entrepreneur and Therapist

September 2nd, 2015 No comments

Christiana Care promotes breast health to Latinas through promotoras

NOTE: The story below is a TRUE story but at the request of the main character of the story, the names have been changed. Also, the person in the picture above is not the person in the story.

Background:

I was the product of a union between a Jewish mother brought up in the Pelham Park section of the Bronx and a Puerto Rican father who was from what was then the predominantly Puerto Rican Co-op City section of the Bronx.

It was a whirlwind romance. My mother, 19 at the time, young, inexperienced and naive, fell head over heels over my father who was eight years older, and within three months of their relationship, she was already pregnant with me. Read more…

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